Judi Daykin Books in Order

Newly transferred to Norfolk, Detective Sara Hirst investigates a decomposing body found in a farm ditch. Possible links to local thefts draw her toward a ruthless gang while she searches for answers about her missing father.

During Cromer's carnival week, Detective Sara Hirst investigates the murder of carnival queen Daisy Shaw. Suspicion of the traveling crew fuels hostility between residents and outsiders, complicating the search for a killer as tensions escalate.

A dog walker discovers a young man's body wrapped in a groundsheet on Norfolk heathland. Detective Sara Hirst follows his connections to a care home, a teacher, and dangerous criminals while trying to prevent further deaths.

Five ghost stories span five centuries around Norfolk's Wayland Wood, where the legendary lost children are said to appear. Their seemingly helpless presence draws different people toward encounters that blur the boundaries between folklore and danger.

Detective Sara Hirst investigates elaborately staged killings linked to four former university friends. Toy llamas connect the crime scenes, but doubts about her superior's favored suspect and secrets closer to home complicate her effort to stop another murder.

A storm washes a deckhand’s body onto the Norfolk coast, and another death aboard a pleasure boat turns an apparent accident into a murder investigation. Detective Sara Hirst must confront the case alongside troubling reminders of her past.

During a Norfolk heatwave, a burned barn reveals a body at Wild Thyme Farm. Sara Hirst investigates the arson and a missing husband while pressures surrounding her career and relationship complicate her plans for the future.

An actress disappears, and her husband’s dementia makes his alarming account difficult to trust. When a body is discovered beneath a theatre stage, Sara Hirst investigates a murder entangled with a threatening figure in a monk’s habit.